Going Rate for Hunting Lease?

If it's cheap it sucks.

The days of $5 an acre are long gone. The going rate in my neck of the woods is 15-18/acre. That's in Amite County.
It's likely $20+ the closer to Woodville/the river you get. If you do a 16th section lease it's that plus the taxes.

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Anybody have an idea how much good leased deer hunting land is (if you can find it) per year? Maybe in Woodville, Ms area. I've heard $5 per acre and $20 per acre...Any clue what's a good deal and what's not?

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My understanding is that $5 an acre doesnt exist anymore. I manage some SE MS pine plantation land that goes for $9-10. That seems to be a good value for industrial pine plantation with low quality deer, and decent turkey hunting. I could probably get $12-15 if I bid it competitively.

Hardwood land starts at $20-25 and goes up from there. A friend had some mixed fields, hardwoods, and young pine plantation with a decent camp house (about 2000 acres) around Fayette, MS about 5 years ago. He advertised it for $40 an acre as a turnkey deal with him planting the food plots. He had so many people make him cash offers on the spot that he ended up taking $50 an acre with $1 per acre increase every year for 10 years.

There is a place in SW Claiborne County called Bruinsburg. Near the River with a mix of fields and woods, and some good duck hunting. A group leased it for $25 an acre for years. Then another group came in at $40 an acre and kicked them out. About three years ago they got leapfrogged by another group at $60 an acre.

One thing you can do for good reference is go to the MS Sec of State website. They manage 600,000 acres of 16th Section for the school trust. They bid all of the hunting every 3-5 years, and it is all public record. Existing lease holders get first right of refusal. But it's crazy what people will pay.

I saw a place in Tallahatchie County in the MS Delta go for $110 an acre (16th Section public record bid) because it had decent duck hunting, but only on certain river levels. They haven't killed a single duck this year.

TLDR: It depends!

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It depends!

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IT tells me that there's too many self-Indulgent wieners in this country with too much bloody money!

Close to the cities, or the oil money, it is going to be expensive.

I drive 5.5 hours to (an unnamed place in the SEC) where we pay $6.50/acre ($850/year club dues including campsite). It is usually worth the drive because the deer are plentiful.

I used to lease my 40 acres in southeast MS to a guy for $800; now I just keep it as a late season spot.

Even 16th section leases are going for $25-40 an acre. Be prepared to be priced out of hunting in the next 5-10 years or travel quite a bit to hunt.

My father in law hunts on a lease in woodville but it is a club that is 6500 acres and they pay 2250.00 a year but they have about 45 members. The bad thing is an out of state hunting license is 400 bucks so tack that on

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45 members?

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6500 acres

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About 150 acres per member is about average. If you're in intensive pine plantation, you probably need 200 acres per member. If you're in high quality habitat you can probably get by with 120 acres, depending on how intensively the members hunt.

Also, remember that leasing 40-80-100 acres in an area that has good habitat and good neighbors is a leveraged position. You're killing other people's deer. We had a neighbor who owned 28 acres and killed 6-8 bucks a year off it. He finally moved away and we were able to buy it. But having the right acres is way more important than how many acres you have, or how much you pay per acre.

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And good leases are hard to find because they are kept by the current owners unless the price gets too high.

At our club all the members are neighbors, relatives, coworkers or attended church with a member. The club has never advertised for an opening. They were all prior guests who waited to join.

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are saying a 600 acre pine lease you only need 3 members?

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If you want a quality experience, then yes. 600 acres pine plantion (intensive silviculture with short rotation spraying and burning, a few small food plots, etc) will not take more than 5-6 bucks harvest off it per year.

If you are looking for a brown is down experience, then maybe 4-5 members with guest privileges. But that would be crowded. And the hunting quality will be very moderate.